Double-sided baby

Meng Feilong and Bai Ke were transferred back to the imperial capital, and Guishan became the commander of Bingzhou, but Bingzhou did not need to send troops or train soldiers. Therefore, the soldiers who can manage are only self-prepared civil defense soldiers and government officials, about 10,000 people, which is much inferior in prestige compared to the four or five hundred thousand military commanders of Kuai County; Jiachen was appointed as the governor of Bingzhou, compared with the scholars in the imperial court, he was promoted openly and secretly, and he was in charge of the real power of life and death, and he was far away from the imperial capital, so he was idle. Although Bingzhou is large, its current population is only 700,000, less than half of what it once was. But there are few people and few things. It's trivial, and the chief and chief of the village can handle the matter of stealing chickens and touching dogs. Large-scale arson, robbery, road abduction, and the yamen of each county dealt with it, and particularly large incidents rarely occurred. So Jiachen ended up leisurely.

That's three years later. In just three years, the changes in personnel are far less great than those in the development of Bingzhou.

It's just that the word Bingzhou exists in name only. Perhaps forty-seven years later, it will be able to thrive again and make foreign enemies fearful.

This is the end of the story, just the beginning of the beginning. Starry night, slightly cold. A cry woke up the strange things in the sick state.

The autumn night is indeed brighter than the summer night, and the moonlight appears and disappears, so that the shade of the trees hides in the shadows for a while, and the outline of the whole body emerges for a while.

The night is deep, and the moon is setting in the west. There is only one house in the city of Hyoshu that is lit up. I saw a peasant man pacing back and forth in the yard, rubbing his palms back and forth, frowning and looking into the house from time to time. Gritting his teeth, as if he had inexhaustible strength, he didn't vent.

The crickets that slept late still hissed, but no one could hear them, for their voices were muffled by the unique screams of women coming from the house. The louder the voice, the tighter Nonghan's teeth were gritted, and the faster he couldn't walk. The old woman who was also standing on the side persuaded the young man to stop for a while, and it would be fine for a while. But although they are from the past, their hearts are beating unusually fast. I thought to myself, no matter whether the boy or girl is going to be a grandparent or grandparents. I was very happy in my heart. The old woman bowed to the witch temple, and kept reciting the salutation in her mouth.

"Whoa-whoa-" A baby's cry replaced the mother's scream. The farmer, the old woman and the old man all ran to the door of the house and waited, waiting for the mother-in-law to open the door, so that they could go in and see the appearance of the baby. But the door can't be opened, and the farmer is anxious, could it be that something happened to the adult. The door didn't shoot, and kicked the closed door open. I don't care about the smell of blood in a room.

Nong Han first paid attention to his wife, the midwife on the bed was sweating, half-leaning on the head of the bed, her eyes closed and very weak, but there was no big problem. So he moved his gaze to the direction of the mother-in-law who was holding the baby. The newborn baby was crying non-stop, but the mother-in-law who was holding the child did not coax her, staring at the baby's face, with a look of grievance, and an expression that wanted to cry but couldn't cry. Nong Han was very angry, if it was normal, a war of words was indispensable, and a fight was possible.

But today, after all, she has a happy event in her own family, and she is a mother-in-law who sends her son, so she can't be provoked. He said to the mother-in-law respectfully, "What's wrong with the mother-in-law, is it a boy or a girl?" The mother-in-law didn't say anything, because she didn't look closely.

When a child is usually born out of the birth canal, it is dipped in amniotic fluid, feces and urine, etc., and if you wash it in a basin of warm water, you can see that the child is male or female. Then wipe off the dirty things of the child, use a swaddling bag, open the door of the delivery room, let the family members in, and then say to the child's father, congratulations to the master, congratulations to the master, Mrs. gave birth to a big fat boy, gave birth to a young master, gave birth to a young lady and the like, which fulfilled the obligation of sending the mother-in-law. The government will give some money and goods to the mother-in-law as a red envelope.

Although the mother-in-law invited by this family today is not the best in the city, but she has been delivering for eleven or twelve years, and the midwife is not someone who wants to be able to be a midwife, she must have the experience of giving birth to a child, and then give her own master a hand to send a child to the mother-in-law for two or three years before she can deliver the baby alone.

These rules should be understood by the midwife now. But she still didn't say a word, and stood still. Didn't take care of Nonghan. Nong Han simply went to see if the baby in the swaddling clothes was male or female, so he picked up a crack in the swaddling curtain, it was a boy. He blushed, and shouted to his father, who had been standing outside the door, that he was a son.

Nong Han lowered the fart curtain and went to see if the baby's appearance was with the father or the mother.

In the dim light, I couldn't see the eyebrows clearly. So Nong Han skipped directly, starting from the eyes, four small eyes, one tall ......

Four eyes, four eyes! Nong Han felt that the light was too dim, and he was dazzled. So I shook my head and looked again, and it was still four. So I simply brought the kerosene lamp on the table, and after a closer look, I was really frightened and sat on the ground.

I saw that the baby only had its nose in the place where it should be. The other eyes and mouth are on either side of the cheeks, four eyes, and two mouths.

Nong Han held the lamp and sat all the time, not wiping the kerosene that had just fallen and dipped in kerosene. The old woman who was standing in the house walked deeper into the house a little more, trying to pull up her son who was sitting on the ground, but she couldn't pull it up. So he just took the kerosene lamp and put it on the table.

The old man hugged the child, coaxed the child has experience, took the little grandson in the hands of the mother-in-law, walked close to the bed edge of the light, looked at his grandson, this look also jumped, the baby's two mouths, one close, crying one after another, repeatedly competing for who should be the first to drink sweet breast milk.

The old woman shouted to her wife, who was still standing outside the door, but refused to enter after shouting a few times. How can there be a daughter-in-law giving birth, and the husband sees the truth. It's good to say, it's not good. Until the old woman said that our family has created evil, and the ancestors have done a lack of virtue. I entered the delivery room, and it is a big deal to insult my ancestors, and it is also a big deal to make things that must insult my ancestors.

He came in hard, but his eyes were fixed on his son and his wife, who were sitting on the ground. The midwife on the other side of the bed didn't dare to take a look. After all, the old man is a person who has seen the world, and he listened to what his wife said. Just sighed. Called out the mother-in-law who sent the child, gave a heavier amount of money than the red envelope prepared to be given before, delivered a strange child, how can there be a face to receive money, every line has the rules of each line, people call you the mother-in-law is to respect you, I hope that the child you deliver can ensure the safety of the mother and child, the child sent should be healthy, if the child is a dead child, or a disabled child, people don't complain about you, it's okay, then dare to accept the money given by others.

This mother-in-law resolutely refused to accept it. But the old man insisted on giving. And I said, my grandson's life is hard, and my family's blessings can't be kept, this child. I didn't expect to be picked up not long after I was born. The old man's trembling tone contained regret, and his cloudy eyes were filled with tears.

The midwife heard the baby's crying. After being stunned for a while, they all understood. took the money and left, the midwife came home, and her husband asked her how the children in that family were, and the midwife just sighed and said: "It's a pity that she died before she was born."

Old man, wiping away tears. I don't know if these tears are shed for this deformed baby, or for the wrong thing to do next.

The old man walked out with the baby in his arms, and the recovered daughter-in-law said to her mother-in-law that she wanted to see the child she had just been born and had not yet met. Nonghan, send the ground to relieve yourself. hugged his wife and said, we are still young, we have only been married for a year, and we will definitely have children in the future. The daughter-in-law of this family understood, leaning on her husband's shoulder, only crying. That's how the world is impermanent.

The old man walked to a spacious open space behind his house with the child in his arms, and dug a deep pit that was an arm long and two palms wide under the two-zhang high plane tree. The land was restored to leveling, but a pit appeared in the hearts of the old man and his family, an uneven pit.

Some people will think that the old man is too vicious, but this is also forced. Nowadays, some people discard able-bodied babies as much as they do to discard cats and dogs. What's more, it was still a deformed baby, and there were no welfare institutions and no plastic surgery hospitals at that time. How do you let this young life live in this so-called normal world? He was destined to be blinded and humiliated. said that this family was possessed by demons, their ancestors did not accumulate virtue, and they did bad things in the family, and they were cursed by the three-foot god on their heads...... Anyway, the living and the dead cannot be at peace.

Child, if you complain, blame me, an old man. The old man was decadently gone.

But if you don't know, you can't do it unless you do. A few days later, the family was talking about a freak who had been buried alive. What it looks like, but no one mentions. In front of the Nong Han family, no one dared to say anything, and they said it happily behind their backs. I don't know who came out of this matter, anyway, the neighbors are close to each other, the sound insulation is poor, and your family has a mouse at night, and all the dogs in his house know it.

This incident has since spread more and more widely. Until it reached Jiachen's ears.

Jiachen didn't track down the authenticity of the information, or arrest the family for questioning, but he just felt that he didn't raise children, and he would throw away such a thing as a patriarchal girl as soon as she was born, which was unethical, not conducive to culture and education, and immoral. It was decreed that it was forbidden to abandon infants, both men and women. If there is a conquest. Whenever a mother-in-law is asked to deliver a baby, it must be recorded, and the cause of death must be confirmed if the baby dies.

Jiachen's idea is indeed good, but it has caused disasters in Bingzhou.

Bingzhou, educating the people in the army, has always been known for its strict military discipline. The people of the city also had orders to do when they received them. After Jiachen issued the order, many county governments also implemented it, strengthening the registration of newborn babies. Later, there was no incident of abandoned children burying children. But something terrible happened. A total of 2,000 babies were born in Bingzhou every year, of which more than 600 were deformed. Some are born without arms, some have an extra leg, some have deformed bones, and a hunchback is a trivial matter at birth, and some babies can only have one side of their head. Some...... And that's not even counting babies who die at birth.

Moreover, the proportion of miscarriage babies is also three or four times higher than in previous years. Maybe it's just a one-year phenomenon, but after another five years, six or seven out of ten children running on the streets of the city are analytically easy to be human. This attracted the attention of Governor Li Hetian. The previous governor, Jiachen, had completed his term of office and was nearly 60 years old, so he wrote a letter and returned to his hometown. returned to his hometown of Wenxin County, Qingcheng, to make fun of his grandson and enjoy the joy of family, and his youngest son Jia Mingyun continued to be his secretary in Bingzhou.

How can such strange things be reported to Emperor Ming? It's just the will of heaven, how can people disobey it! When Li Hetian was still hesitating how to tell about it. Some people who do business have long spread this strange phenomenon in Bingzhou to the streets and alleys of Yiyun Country. So when Emperor Ming saw Li Hetian's recital, he sent the diviner Houtian and the imperial physician Bai Ke to lead his entourage to see if it was an epidemic or a feng shui problem.

The white shell revisited the hometown, and did not rush as seven years ago, got off the court, made an appointment with Houtian, and got together after sunrise tomorrow, which is also the meaning of Houtian.

White Shell returned home and told his parents and wife about it. Bai Ke is only in his thirties, with jet-black sword eyebrows, bright eyes, watery, and a tall nose bridge that is very handsome. The maintenance is also very good. The reason why he was able to become an imperial doctor in his twenties, in addition to his own medical skills, mainly relied on this gold plaque of the Bai Family Pharmacy. This is the accumulation of nine generations of the Bai family's elders, who have evaluated their conscience to practice medicine and bought genuine medicinal materials. From the barefoot man who walked the streets and alleys to sell medicine for nine generations, to the current one who treats the royal power.

On this trip, Bai Ke plans to take his two younger brothers, Baizhu and Bai Zhi, to go together. They were only thirteen or fourteen years old. I took them not because their medical skills were better than their own, but because they wanted to take them out to experience and experience, and they traveled 2,000 miles from Dijing to Bingzhou. There are many exotic flowers and herbs on the road, and there are many herbs and herbs, and you can read thousands of books and travel thousands of miles. It's autumn, and you can find some herbs in the woods. Regarding the deformity of babies in Bingzhou, first, the disease is peculiar, although there are deformed children born in Yiyun Country every year, but there are more than 1,000 a year like Bingzhou, and it seems that the entire Xiniu Hezhou is unique, but the song and rumors only say that the child's body is different from that of a normal person, and there are no signs of pain in the body; second, the cause of this is not clear; there is no rush to treat it; third, there are no dead people, which shows that this disease will never make people face death, and it needs to be considered in the long run.

After dinner, Bai Ke did not stay warm with his wife, but read at night, and came to his study, where the shelves were full of medical books, and he wanted to find similar illnesses in them, so that he could provide some ideas for himself to treat and save people in Bingzhou. But I searched through the group books and didn't find it. No one has ever seen a deformed body for this, and although the extra arms and legs can be cut off, they will always hurt other organs of the body, and the limbs cannot be placed in the body without a corresponding person.

In the end, he found a medical book "Miscellaneous Treatises on Trauma", which did not introduce examples of treating deformities, but it hurt people, and was hit by a poisoned arrow, resulting in an arrow in the thigh, and the skin ulcerated and had to be stopped. The white shell really can't do it, so that's the only way to go.

Houtian returned home, but he was very comfortable. It's just that before going to bed, he took out the package in the box under the bed, which contained a peachwood sword, paper talismans, and eight prisms that had not been used for a long time. And a suit of witch robes.

In the early morning, as soon as the sun came out, Houtian locked the door of his house because he was the only one in his house. He was always a man of few words.

He paced to the gate of the city, where he waited for the group of people with the white shell belt. It wasn't long before they came. Bai Zhu and Bai Zhi dismounted and met Master Hou, but Bai Ke sat in the carriage, lifted the curtain, and beckoned Hou Tian to sit with him. Although Bai Ke is ten years older than Houtian, he does not have a city government, and he is not as calm and cautious as Houtian. But Houtian didn't hate him, but regarded him as his friend, thinking that Houtian had too few friends.

Two carriages, eighteen horses, a total of twenty-two people. Out of the Imperial Capital Gate.

Bai Zhu and Bai Zhi have carriages and do not have to ride horses, and walk at the head of the team. They rarely go out, and they are full of curiosity about the black-winged butterflies and muddy paths. Anyway, the group walked very slowly, and the last time I went to Bingzhou, I arrived in seven or eight days, and this time I am afraid it will take about ten days. But Houtian didn't say anything, and the white shell recognized them as nonsense.

Bai Ke saw that Houtian was distracted, so he didn't bother him, but read the other "Miscellaneous Treatises on Trauma". For Wangwenwen and cutting the number of pulses, this method, Bai Hu is very familiar, but for external injuries, he can only anti-inflammatory dressings and prescribe medicines, and he has not done it yet. Therefore, it is necessary to study hard, and give the people who are alive and well, and those who remove their arms and legs, this thing is a bad thing.

Houtian is always easy to get distracted and remember what happened in the past. The soothsayer is one of the mysterious professions in Xiniu Hezhou, which is separated from the witch god cult and deduces what will happen through the existing things; But the sacred cannot control his own destiny.

Emperor Ming's promotion of culture and education does not mean that the death penalty is abolished. A soothsayer is an official position that has been passed down from generation to generation. Because the rulers believed that such a mysterious skill as divination would be passed down through blood. Because his ancestors were soothsayers, his grandfather, his father, and himself were all soothsayers.

Shacheng and Yiyun Kingdom went to war, and the fourteenth king at that time was hesitating to quell the war through negotiations, so he asked the soothsayer to divination, and his grandfather was victorious and could fight because of the divination. So he fought a year-long war with Shacheng, and although Yiyun won the war in the end, he killed 100,000 soldiers. provoked the world, in order to calm the emotions of the soldiers and the people, the king used his grandfather's head to apologize to the world.

So his father inherited the position of soothsayer, and on the surface the scenery is infinite, but under the seat there are murderous opportunities.

His father was the one seven years ago, when "the stars fell to the west and the insects flew to the east, indicating that the disaster was in the west; the water had no shore and the mountains had fallen into the earth, which meant that natural disasters could not be changed by manpower." Minister, divination a hexagram, is a hexagram, a big evil elephant. The other ministers can't figure it out."

The fate of the soothsayer is truly sad.

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